Improvement in check-rein fasteners



`BERN L. B UDD. Improvement'in Check Rein Fastening. No.w120,238.Patentedot. 24,1371.

I Iig/ UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

BERN L. BUDD, OF FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOB TO JAMES S. MOTT,

OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHECK-REIN FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,238, dated October24, 1871.

have invented a new and Improved Check-Rein Fastener; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being hadto the accompanying Vdrawing forminga partof this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement on a check-rein fastener whichis the subject of Let ters Patent No. 73,777, granted to John S.Campbell, January 28, 1868. It consists in a novel construction of thebearings for the pivots of the tongue in the base-plate, whereby themanufacture and putting together of the component parts of the fastenerare facilitated and the pivot-pin covered and thereby secured in place.It also consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the springwhich keeps the tongue closed.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a side View of my fastener,showing it applied to a portion of a saddle. Fig. 2 is a back view ofthe fastener. Fig. 3 is a central lon gitudn al section of the same.Fig.4is a similar section with the tongue removed. Fig. 5 is atransversesection taken a-t the dottedline w .fr in Fig. 6, which is an invertedview ofthe base-plate; Fig. 7, a similar view of the spring-plate;.- andFig. 8, an inverted view of the two plates, showing the springplateswung aside.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thegures.

A is the base-plate of the fastener, which, instead of being slit toform the spring, and having the bearin gs for the pivots formed byturning over the ends of the portions outside of the slits like thepatent fastener of Campbell, before nientioned, has a recess, a, in themiddle of its rear end portion, and the portions f' f on each side -ofsaid recesses are stamped up from the under side into hollow concaveform, as shown more particularly in Figs. 4L and 5, to form bearings forthe reception of the pivots on the tongue C. In the middle of thebroader forward portion of the plate is a square hole, c, and in frontof this the plate has the spring-plate B secured to it by a rivet, b.The spring-plate B is of the same shape as t-he plate A and has in it ahole which corresponds with the hole c in said plate. It is slitopposite the sides of the recessa in the plate A, and the portion obetween the slits is bent so as to project slightly into the recess andform a spring, by means of which the tongue C is kept in position. Thetongue C is of a curved form longitudinally, and has formed on one end anarrow neck or tenon, d, which ts between the bearings j' f, and whichhas a square or fiat end against which the spring g acts. This neck hasinserted through it a pin, c', whose projecting ends form the pivots bywhich the tongue is pivoted to the base-plate.

To put the parts together the pla-tes A and B are first rivetedtogether, and are turned on the rivetb to permit the insertion of theneck of the tongue into thc recess a and its pivots into the bearings fj', and the plates are then turned back on the pivots to conform to eachother. The spring g bearing against the end of the neck of the tonguekeeps it in place, and as the bearings f j' cover the ends of the pinthey prevent it from slipping out. The fastener is secured to thecheck-rein hook E by the same bolt, A, that seciues the latter to thesaddle-tree, and this bolt so clamps the springiplate B that only itsspring portion g is left iieXible. The spring g bearing against the endof the tongue keeps it in position either While open or closed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The tongue-pivot bearings ff, formed by striking up in the plate,from the under side, cavities of a form substantially as hereindescribed, not only to receive but to cover the ends of the pivots.

2. The spring-plate B, slit to form the spring, and covering the wholebottoni of and combined with the base-plate A and tongue C,substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

BERN L. BUDD.

Witnesses:

HENRY T. BROWN, FEED HAYNEs.

